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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Russian engineer has discovered
a process of crystallizing petroleum so
it may be transported more easily.
The importation of almonds into
the United States amounts to about
$500, 900 pounds annually. California
imports no almonds but she raises
about 100000 pounds in her own gar
dens.
"A French chemist has noticed that
considerable errors in delicate weigh
inc NAV result from an electrified state
of the glass case surrounding the bal
ance.
During the year 1886 1000 pounds
of beeswax were shipped from Califor-
MIA by sea to Europe; 4l.00O pounds by
overland by rail, mostly to New York,
and 5000 pounds via Panama to New
York.
For some time past experiments
have been made in Germany with
composition of cork, sand and lime
nodded into bricks for the construc-
ton of light partition walls. This, it is
said, excludes sound better than brick
work, and is also light and a good non
| ductor of heat.
A Hudson, N. Y, man is expert
menting with rifle bullets. He covers
the leaden ball with copper and then
creases it with diagonal ridges by which
greater velocity is attained and the
gun does not become coated with lead
and requires no cleaning when even as
many as fifty or one hundred shots
have been fired.
"A series of tests has recently been
made by DR.. Fischer, the well-known
German chemist, showing that in or
binary domestic stoves in use not more
than twenty per cent. of fuel consumed
is really utilized for warming the rooms,
whereas with stoves burning gas, eighty
per cent and more of the possible effect
IS obtained.
Artificial sponge, made of cotton,
rendered absorbent and treated with
antiseptics has been introduced in En-
gland, and received with considerable
favor. A piece the size of walnut
has absorbed water until it reached the
size of a cocoanut; and it is so cheap
that it need be used but Woman s
Journal.
An improved automatic steam
engine of Erie, Pennsylvania, make
claims to have obtained the same re-
suits with single valve that it has
heretofore required from four to six
valves to accomplish. The admission,
compression and release are constant
at any and all points of cutoff from
nothing up to three-fourths, and beyond
if desired.-BOston Budget.
M Landeren, French savant, has
for years past been making observa-
tons on the nature and role of earth
currents at the city of Tortosa, and
, some of his remarks thereon are worthy
of note He believes that he has dis
covered the existence of telluric cur
rents produced by the wind, and he
finds that the direction of the currents
, changes during whole months at a
time.-Albany argus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21
THE MOTHERS MITE,

amt feelin' firstrate this mornin' I'm gettin'
old and you see
It's powerful easy matter 10 take the grit out
o. me.
Here's a letterTve Jest been readin' that kinder
touches my heart,
For in helpin' to keep the children have tried
TO do my part.
And it comes sort o. hard and hurts like when
you re dom your level best,
And have given EN- half of your savns to have
EN- hint for the rest
We amt got the Yanderbilts' milons-I wish
we had for the SON
But we hadn't u cent between us, when Joe and
me first begun.
1t was only by worlin' and pinchin', a goin' on
shorts for years,
That we gathered enough together, to do for our
little dearS
As the other folks did for theirn in dressin' and
schooln, you know;
And somehow they can't remember that things
was ever so low.
They can't remember that ever Joseph and me
have went
Hungry and cold so his wages might be saved
or most of it spent
For them; they was all that we lived for and
manys the time but for them
I'd ha' dropped right down in the harness and
never been driven again.
They can't remember we're agin' and the day
isn't far ahead
When we'll need what little we've put by to hold
house over head;
But Godknows we have to remember, if we don't
keep something in store,
There isn't one that would help us to drive the
wolf from the door,
I suppose we grow chicken hearted arter we've
struggled so long.
But they do seem little bit graspin' and theil
love for us kinder wrong.
We sent John five hundred dollars a half OF
what wee laid by
For he gOin to be married this summer, some
time in June or July.
The gal is a mighty fine lady, and it grinds him
because he amt got
AS much money She has been used to, SC
Joseph and me. we thought
Wed send him all that and surprise him, but
the letter that come to-day
1t says-don't mind me, it hurts, ma'am, we
might as well throwed it away
1t says he is only a pauper-and gettin two
thousand year!
And few coppers more isn't nothin' towards
keepin' his high-born dear.
lie amt been in no mood for writin', and he
wishes l wouldn't spell
The name OF the town that he lives in with an
and double l.
This is all the word that he sent us. when
thought he'd surely be
Most tickicd to death, and would tell US wee
dealt with him generously
1t may be he thinks that the old folks lose feeln
with teeth and hair
You can say anythin' you've mind to and they
don't know enough to care.
The young ones can't learn that our wrinkles
don't Sorter affect our heart,
They forget when they're lashin' the old horse
it feels il it don't up and start;
AND there isn't much use in alvin, when you
get like me and joe
Too, still in the joints to run fast for even the
hardest blow.
Did you see my handkerchief layin' round about
here any place:
My spectacles seem kinder foggy and I'd like
TO wipe off my face
Jest take up that Bible there, won't you? and
read of the prodigal SON
Its comfortin to know that my boy amt the
only ungrateful one
Flora .ucDonaid in " y independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21
What is philosophy? Ill truth
The answers very simple:
The trick of age that clings to youth
And calls q wrinkle, dimple.

-SUttngS.
Mamma" said Bobby, Il know
why burned child breads the fire."
why" asked mamma. Because
when he gets burned once the burn
makes him smart enough not to go near
the stove again"
THE great trouble with you, John,
isl said lady to her husband, who
was suffering from the effects of the
night before, 'you can not say No
Learn to say NO. John, and you will
have fewer headaches. Can you let me
have a little money this morning?"
NO" said John, with apparent ease.
Miss de Greene - "Ah, Moosoo
Duval, I'm so glad that you are to take
me in to dinner" M. Duyal - "Ah,
Mees, re plaisir-vat you call him-is
mutual, eh?" Miss de G.-''Well, the
fact is, | don't understand French, and
never can understand the bill of fare.
Why, at Mrs. Crushup's last dinner 1
ordered dish of sausage, thinking that
it was sweetbreads, which | adore. -
accident NeUS.
-Brevity produces some very re-
markable specimens of what the phi
losophers call nominalism. One of our
correspondents had occasion to go into
store in this city to inquire for DR..
Abercrombie's work, 1.-The Intellectual
Faculties" and 1.-The Philosophy of
the Moral Feelings" When he asked
for them the bookseller, after looking
about, solemnly replied; 81 know l
haven't any Moral Feelings. and 1
doubt whether have any Intellectual
Faculties. Christian AdUocate.
There is no use talking, I'm going
to get married." said bachelor
acquaintance the other day, while
busily engaged in sewing. Here l
have worked just twenty minutes by
the watch trying to get this needle
threaded, and then, just as succeeded,
pulled the thread out Finally | got it
threaded, and now, having sewed on
this button good and strong, l find /
have got it on the wrong side, and l
have all my work to do over again. -
| NJ Y. Ledger.
-Inquiring child-"Pa, what is the
difference between sitting up and sit
ting down?' Pa with perfect conf
dence in his ability to explain) -"Why,
my child, when somebody is standing
up and he seats himself he sits down,
and when he doesn't go to bed and sits
down he sits up Pa with dawning
doubt of his ability to make it quite
clear)-"You see, my child, if he sits
down, why, he; mean if ne sits up
Go to your ma, and don't ask me ques-
tions when I'm busy"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21

If you have soiled white Spanish or
cachemire lace do not throw it aside as
worthless, for it may be colored with
some of the dyes now to be found in
small packages. The lace may then be
used in a great many ways. One way
is to trim the edge of tides made of
strips of ribbon and lace or of ribbons
and velvet. or of those novelties for the
backs of chairs made of strip of plain
silk placed on each side of an elegant
strip of crazy patchwork. Indianapolis
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21
Appetizing FIavors,

Some odd combinations in flavor have
been the result of experiment. Nearly
every good houSekeeper knows that
tomato catsup is greatly improved by
throwing into the boiling pulp a good
handful of peach leaves. A leaf Of
lemon-scented verbena is equal to pecoe
blossoms if put into a cup of fragrant
Oolong tea. The flavor of black
birch is very agreeable in chocolate
with which it harmonizes more finely
than vanilla, and which any one can
try by dipping a checkerberry lozenge
or two into her morning cup for
sweetening. The old Virginia epicure
never thinks his gumbo soup complete
unless sassafras leaves are added. The
muscatine or frost grape, gives the
finest bouquet to all sorts of creams,
iellies and sauces, and the sharp cider
jelly, which is comparatively a new
Jelly, is being preferred by many to
either cranberry or currant jelly for
roast turkey and venison.-Detroat
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21

"A brilliant black varnish for iron
stoves and iireplaces is made by stir
ring ivory-black into ordinary shellae
varnish.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21

1t is strange that poverty bears up
so well, considering there are so many
people struggling with it.-BoSton zra's-
script.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21
TRAINING THE YOUNG.
The Parental Duty Which Society Owes to
sho Youth of the Land.

The parental duty of the community
is something which even our modern
philosophers, as rule, neglect to en-
phasizc, and yet the fact remains that
the community has parental duty to
discharge toward every minor. A child
is not merely the parents child; it is al
ready member of society, and it is the
duty of society to see that proper add
vantages for the training of youth are
provided. The importance of the home
surroundings upon the growing lad or
lass is something which all enlightened
people appreciate, but the popular sense
of the parental duty of the community
is yet to be awakened.
The community is responsible equally
with the parent for the training of the
child. 1t is the duty of the community
to see that the child is provided with an
education which shall surely reveal
himself to himself, that may awaken
some definite aspiration within him and
bend his energies toward preparation
for some calling by which he is by tenn
permanent and power of application
qualified. 1t is the parental duty of So
ciety to see that its youth are trained to
become useful members of the COM
munity, and not set adrift upon the
world unprepared to hew their way.
Otherwise, society must foot the bills.
-BoStOn Home Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21

Owing to the increased electrical
tensity of the atmosphere, which is in.
duced by the continual evolution of
steam and smoke, DR.. Andres, esti-
mates that the danger from lightning is
from three to five times greater than it
was fifty years ago.-M Y Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A contented mind has no roosting
place for the devils chickens. -PretzepS
Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-21

Boston Girl-"O, mother! l did
something awfully immodest at the
party tonight" Mother-"Why, my
dear child, what was it?" b. G.-"That
horrid bouquet Mr.. Beacon sent me had
some cinnamon pinks init. They made
me sneeze, and-but | can't say it. "
Mother-"Go on!'' b. G.-"My glasses
fell oil, and Mr.. Beacon saw my bare
facem-Life.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12
CLERK AND MASTERS
SALE OF LAND.

In the Chanceiy Court at JOnesboro, WASH
ington County, Tennessee.
ELIZA J. GAMBLE, EFT AL. VS.. Gus B. N
MARY e. Ross. Ns, tF
Pursuant to a decree of the court rem
dcred at its May term, 1886, in the above
cause, | will on Saturday the 18th day of
May, 1887, at the court house door in
Jonesboro, sell, at public outcry TO the
highest bidder, the House and Lot men.
toned and described in the pleadings
and SAID decree and ordered to be sold.
being the house and lot formerly owned
and occupied by Mrs. Harriet Wall, situ-
ated III the town of Jonesboro on the
south side of Main street, in the same
block with and bounded on the east by
the house and lot OF Mrs. Munsey, and on
the west by the house and lot of Mrs.
Gammon's heirs. and is the middle house
and lot in said block Of three, and has q
front on Main street and uniform width
OF about 81 feet, and running back about
207 feet.
TERMS OF SALE.
Said House and Lot will be sold on a
credit OF SIX and twelve months and In
bar of the equity of redemption; notes
with approved security required Of the
purchaser for the purchase money, and a
lien retained on the land therefor, until
fully paid. This, 14th day OF April, 1887.
Nfi. A. B. BOWMAN,
apr2lw4 Clerk and Master.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12

as the commission Of a Cabinet officer IN.
der all precedents expires with the cd
ministrasion. Where they have held over
1t has been by invitation Of the President
for bis temporary convenience. It might
then be a question whether the President
pro tenn. who Is q constitutional officer
to I'LL the place Of the Vice President In
event Of his elevation or death and being
the presiding officer of a continuous body
would not have rational claims In default
OF a choice Of a President and Vice Pre-
sident upon the first Office. The possible
and not at all improbable contingency Of
a failure to elect would make John ]. In.
gals the highest officer In rank under the
constitution. In the exercise of the Of
fee OF President of the Senate he has all
the prestige OF rank. power and preoga-
tives OF the Vice President. 1t Is anoth.
er link in this extraordinary chain of pos.
sibilites that he is above all power OF re.
moval within party lines. not even by the
will Of the odd Senator In the vote.
Should an attempt be made to supercede
him. the vote Of the Virginia Readjuster
with the Democrats would make o tie
and prevent an election. With the Re
publicans the Virginia Senator could not
name the man. as the vote of Mr.. Ingalls,
for himself with the Democrats would
again make a tie.
Riddleberger a be depended upon by
the Republicans. as much so as any Re-
publican Senator, and thus gives the Re.
publicans two chances to the Democrats
one, in the election of President In 1888.
This grows out Of the fact that the Re.
publicans have an equal chance with the
in a n election by the people.
and the Democrats have no chance,
should the election go to the House Of
Representatives.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12


OPINIONS on the working Of the new
inter. State commerce law have been OBJ.
tanned by Bradstreet's from 1900 differ.
ent manufacturers and shippers in thirty.
four different cities. These interviews
indicate that the excitement about and
to some extent the opposition to the law
ore subsiding. As lis workings come to
be understood 1t Is seen that shippers
were more scared than hurt at the time
the bill went into effect. 1t has taken
time to prepare schedules, and the work
10 not yet completed. That the tariff
rates as just published will have to be to
q great extent readjusted there can be
scarcely a doubt. This work Of read
juatment Is already In progress. and It Is
only fair 10 the new law that shippers
should be patient and await Its gradual
completion. Already those who made
at the outset o great cutlery because these
were abolished are finding that the pub.
lie have no sympathy with protests that
are so entirely selfish as these. The re.
suit OF the Bradstreet''s inquiry seems 10
show that as the public becomes accus.
toned to the law, and its effects II Il
found 70 be less dangerous and obnoxious
10 the business interests than at first sup
----I
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12
GreeneyiiIe.
Republican, May 8.

Republican, Mays.
Married, on Thursday evening, 2Sth
ult.. at the residence Of the brides father,
james A. Galbraith, Of this place. W. b.
Taylor to Miss Jenneie Galbraith, Rev. s.
A. Collie, officiating. The bride received
a number Of very handsome presents
from her friends.
p Ed. T. Miller has retired from the drug
store Of Messrs. Boyd & Park. He went
down to Jefferson county last week TO be
with his brother Charlie, who expects TO
have his left hand amputated this week,
the result Of an accidental pistol shot
through the hand some time ago.
The annual commencement exercises Of
Grecneville and Tusculum college will be
held In the Chapel ut that place next Fri.
day, May 18th. A number of students
will receive their diplomas. Several nd.
dresses. and the memorial exercises Of
REV. w. 8. Doak, d. d., former presl'
dent OF the college, will be held, and an
address appropriate to the occasion will
be delivered by Rev. Keff Smith, Of At
lanta. Georgia. a~. srr
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12

A writer in the Kansas Farmer wishes
that his brother farmers would adopt his
creed, viz: That vegetables are better than
drugs. Spinach has a direct effect upon
complaints Of the kidneys. The common
dandelion, as greens, Is also excellent for
the same trouble. Asparagus purifes the
blood, celery acts upon. the nervous sys.
tenn. Tomatoes act upon the liver; beets
and turnips are excellent appetizers. Let
tuce and cucumbers are cooling in their
effects upon the system. Red onions are
an excellent diuretic. White onions eat
en- raw are recommended as a remedy for
insomnia. Raw Or cooked they are q
splendid tonic. Farmers. plant a garden,
and plant it nowl
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12
OUR NEraHBoRs.
Bristol.

Courier, May. 6.
Several parties are negotiating with
Mr.. J.. r. Anderson for the Embreeville
Iron Works in Washington county, Tenn.
The suit against the Bristol Fair and
Stock Association has been bought out
and dismissed from court. The stock
holders are fixing to sell the grounds.
The municipal election occurred Tues
day, and Mayor ]. W. Norvell is reelec.
ted for two years. OF the three hundred
and sixty votes polled. Mr.. Norvell re-
ceived 243, and Mr.. Kuhnert 112. The.
following board Of alderman was elected;
NJ. N. Butler, 1888; John H. Caldwell,
$50; John G. Anderson. $40; G. B. Smith
S24; W. A. Ray, 200; John Tennessee.
$50; John P. Steiner, 222.
Mr.. A. 8. McCreath, Chemist Of the
Geological Survey Of Pennsylvania, gives
the folling analysis of coal found in this
region: Water 1.sS; volatile matter,
$500; fixed carbon, 60.5si;i sulphur
954; ash, 1.515. This coal will make q
coke of 96 per cent. carbon with only
three per cent. of ash. The best Penn.
syivania coke has less than ninety per
cent. of fixed carbon, and from nine to
ten per cent Of ash Alabama coke
fixed carbon, Sa25s; ash. 5sa
During the past week some immense
land sales have been made In Carter
county, near E~lizahethton- The trans
fers will foot up over one hundred thou
sand dollars, and still the boom In Carte
county dirt is only fairiy begun. One o.
the largest sales was the Happy yalley
form, Familiarity known as the Landon @
Haynes estate. and recently owned b.
Rev. N. G.. Taylor and associates. II 1
situated some distance from Elizabethtol
and contains about six hundred acres
The purchasers were q number Of Bos
ton capitalists, and the price paid wa
about $4,000. The same syndicate ais
bought some land from the Upton heir
for 81, 200. and many other tracts not We
for publication.
Reporter, May7.
Married on April 20, at the residence Q
3, the brides parents near Lebanon, Va
Mr.. Robert Jobe, Of johnson City, an,
| Miss Bette Brown,
The last saloon In Goodson was close
, on Saturday night last, and local optic
9 now has full sway. No liquor can no,
be bought In Bristol from dark until day
a light, unless the law is violated. Fror
street presents q darkened appearance Q
night compared with the days of yort
the change is decidedly for the better.
: > The Bristol municipal election, Tuei
day. passed off quietly. Three hundre
and sixty votes were pollcd, against 20
last year; the increase being due to tn
q enlargement of the corporation bounds
ries. Result for Mayor: Mayor ]. W
Norvell, 243; George W. Kuhnert. III
; The following are the Aldermen cleo
John II. Caldwell, John G. Anderson, G
9 B. Smith. John Tennessee, W. A. Ray
John P. Steiner and M. NJ. Butler-a Nc
. / board. Two Of them, DR.. Butler an
Squire Tennessee, hail from the new ad
dition.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12

NE D@EDz-Ez &c gzE mink sIns
VI BrE @ssA2 Eggz z ftza-
3 1u7li-
bifa1isl, 80 uaz aasg nigir aars zssr.ed
some Gee ezse = IL E1E1st SsEasz Aeaarea
Mr. Regain prBbahlT Tn MT rsursrast1
til after his esec611 sun Bn1osu Gm-
versions are not i~-frsgasz1 1. rns3s1
politics, but the eozTsa seS5en eu5Ez-
ger their prospects Of P~eferse11 fx =
premature disclosure Of obnoxi0uz Or zE-
popular opinions.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12

WESTERN growers propose to demand
of congress that all washed woods shall
pay double the duty of unwashed, and
all secured woods treble; also that wool
washed in any other way than on the
sleeps back shall be called secured, and
that any wool containing less than IL per
cent. natural impurity shall be classed
as secured.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12

THE Democrats who are anonymously
opposing Cleveland would confer a favor
on their party by naming some n else.
1t Is Cleveland or nothing, perhaps both,
with the Democratic party. and all his
Democratic critics have nobody to offer
In his Mace.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12

THE Louisiana planters, in convention,
have resolved that, "in the opinion of the
executive committee of the State Agri-
cultural Society, the best interests of the
planting community of this State require
that the provisions Of the interstate com.
merce law be carried out strictly, and en-
forced throughout the land"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12
Address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
New ORLEANS. LA.

QEMeMQ Et1 That the presence OF Gem
ly, who are In charge of the drawings, is q
guarantee OF absolute fairness and integrity,
that the chances are all equal, and that no
n can possibly divine what numbers will
draw q Prize.
NJ 0 Err that the payment OF oil
Prizes Is GUARANTEED BY FOUR Ma
TIONAL BANKS OF New Orleans, and the
Tickets are signed by the President OF an In
stitution, whose chartered rights are recog.
nIzed In the highest Courts: therefore, beware
OF any limitations or anonymous schemes.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-05-12

TRADE dollars have begun 10 come
back to us from China and Japan for re.
demption. Thus far somewhat more
than half a million have been sent home.
1t is not likely, however, that the amount
will be at all what was anticipated, as
merchants have n custom over there Of
stamping foreign coins that comes into
their possession, and such by the terms
Of the redemption act cannot be received.
At the same time It is not easy to see how
the East India merchants can send q 400
grain silver coin q long journey. ex-
change 1t for q 412i grain coin, and make
money by the transaction. One would
think there was more profit in sending 1t
to the melting pot than in the course
which seems to have been adopted.